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My curriculum vitae, including education, research experience, publications, and skills in machine learning, sequence modelling and brain-inspired computing.

General

Name Tristan Torchet
Label PhD Student in Electrical Engineering and Neuroscience
Email tristan.torchet@uzh.ch
Phone +33 7 61 18 28 96
Summary PhD student working on hardware-software co-design, dendritic computing, and linear sequence models with a focus on brain-inspired computing.
GitHub TristanTorchet
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Industry

  • 2021.06 - 2021.09
    Data Engineer Intern
    Prediko
    Implemented ML pipeline for time series forecasting and developed dashboard for company and user activity monitoring.
    • Implemented pipeline for time series forecasts using ARIMA, ARIMAX, SARIMAX and ensemble techniques with Darts library
    • Developed full-stack dashboard (MongoDB, FastAPI, Docker, GCP) presented to investors for $5M funding round
    • Used machine learning algorithms and Gaussian Processes for stock management optimization

Education

  • 2023.09 - Present

    Zürich, Switzerland

    Joint Ph.D.
    Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETHZ and UZH
    Electrical Engineering and Neuroscience
    • Hardware-software co-design
    • Dendritic computing
    • Linear sequence models
  • 2021.09 - 2023.07

    Zürich, Switzerland

    Master of Science
    ETH Zürich
    Electrical Engineering and Information Technology
    • Introduction to Machine Learning
    • Advanced Machine Learning
    • Neuromorphic Engineering I & II
    • VLSI I, II & III
    • Machine Learning on Microcontrollers
    • Introduction to Neuroinformatics
    • Deep Learning in Biological Networks
  • 2017.09 - 2021.07

    Lausanne, Switzerland

    Bachelor
    École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
    Electrical and Electronic Engineering
    • Analysis I, II, III, IV
    • Physics I, II, III, IV
    • Electrotechnics I & II
    • Electronics I & II

Selected Publications

Skills

Programming
Python (JAX, PyTorch)
C
C++
CUDA
Hardware Design
SystemVerilog
Siemens QuestaSim®
Synopsys Design Compiler®
Cadence Innovus®
Cadence Virtuoso®

Languages

French
Native speaker
English
C1
Italian
C1
Spanish
B2

Interests

Research
Brain-inspired Computing
Hardware-software Co-design
Sequence Modeling
Edge AI

References

Prof. Melika Payvand
Main supervisor, Emerging Intelligent Substrates Lab, Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETHZ/UZH
melika@ini.uzh.ch
Prof. Shih-Chii Liu
Committee member, Institute of Neuroinformatics, ETHZ/UZH
shih@ini.uzh.ch
Dr. Abu Sebastian
Committee member, IBM Research
ase@zurich.ibm.com
Prof. Luca Benini
Committee member, ETHZ
lbenini@iis.ee.ethz.ch